The Embryologic Perspective

1. Aside from the nervous system, which other organ system develops out of the ectoderm?

digestive

respiratory

integumentary

urinary

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2. Which primary vesicle of the embryonic nervous system does not differentiate into more vesicles at the secondary stage?

prosencephalon

mesencephalon

diencephalon

rhombencephalon

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3. Which adult structure(s) arises from the diencephalon?

thalamus, hypothalamus, retina

midbrain, pons, medulla

pons and cerebellum

cerebrum

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4. Which non-nervous tissue develops from the neuroectoderm?

respiratory mucosa

vertebral bone

digestive lining

craniofacial bone

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5. Which structure is associated with the embryologic development of the peripheral nervous system?

neural crest

neuraxis

rhombencephalon

neural tube

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6. Critical Thinking: Studying the embryonic development of the nervous system makes it easier to understand the complexity of the adult nervous system. Give one example of how development in the embryonic nervous system explains a more complex structure in the adult nervous system.

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7. Critical Thinking: What happens in development that suggests that there is a special relationship between the skeletal structure of the head and the nervous system?

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